News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Tunnel set to be plugged by week's end

By Sandra Dibble

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 6, 2007

TECATE – A cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel discovered Monday near the Tecate border crossing is scheduled to be plugged by the end of this week.

“They're moving very fast to get it closed up,” said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. The entire tunnel eventually will be filled.

No arrests had been made by yesterday evening, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were cooperating in the investigation, Mack said. It was unclear how long the tunnel had been in operation.

The tunnel measures 1,300 feet, with about 1,000 feet in the United States and 300 feet in Mexico, Mack said. It runs 20 to 40 feet beneath the surface and is 5 to 6 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide. Mexican officials initially had reported that the tunnel was much longer.

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